Method of character recognition in written document

Method of character recognition in written document

A method for recognizing characters in an image of a document having at least one alphanumeric field. The method includes the steps of enhancing an image contrast to highlight the characters in the image; detecting contours of objects in the image to create a mask that highlights the characters; seg...

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Hauptverfasser: Viguier, Thierry, Goubalan, Sègbédji
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
PHYSICS
PRESENTATION OF DATA
RECOGNITION OF DATA
RECORD CARRIERS
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Zusammenfassung:A method for recognizing characters in an image of a document having at least one alphanumeric field. The method includes the steps of enhancing an image contrast to highlight the characters in the image; detecting contours of objects in the image to create a mask that highlights the characters; segmenting the image using a tree with connected components and applying the mask thereto in order to extract the characters from the image; performing a character recognition on the extracted objects. A device for implementing the method.